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JVSX Aerospace Academy: Our Inspired Vision ...

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Jules Verne

Our inspired vision is based-on the visionary genius of Jules Verne, an author whose adventurous space travel novels sparked the imagination of infamous Rocket Scientist Dr. Wernher von Braun

who lay the foundation for NASA’s Human Spaceflight and Space Exploration Programs today.

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Dr. Wernher Von Braun

Dr. Wernher von Braun, is the renowned post-WW-II Rocket Scientist and former U.S.A. Director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), who is celebrated as both:  the master architect of the U.S.A. Apollo Space Program, and the ingenious rocket scientist who engineered the Saturn-V Rocket.  It is Dr. Wernher von Braun’s Saturn-V Rocket that was used to successfully land the first U.S. American Astronauts on the Moon.

During an interview, Dr. Wernher von Braun revealed: 

“It was Jules Verne (19th-Century) author and a founding father of the science fiction genre — famous for authoring the Moon novels, that ignited my own fascination with rocket design and space travel to the Moon”.

He further added: 

“Jules Verne’s Moon novels:  “From the Earth to the Moon” (1865) and “Around the Moon” (1870) helped shape my own vision for modern space exploration”.

Jules Verne is hailed as a visionary genius because all of his 19th century technological inventions described in his novels (1863 to 1870) were introduced to the world 100 years before any of the actual 20th-Century inventions would become a reality.

For instance, Jules Verne envisioned manned spaceships that could travel round-trip between the Earth and the Moon, and even suggested with remarkable accuracy that,

“the ideal rocket launch site would be located in Southern, Florida, USA!”

Apollo-11 Moon Mission:

NASA launches Dr. Wernher Von Braun's most powerful and largest rocket ever built -- the 363-feet tall Saturn-V Rocket on Apollo-11 Moon Mission from Launch Complex 39 -- Pad A, at Kennedy Space Center Cape Canaveral, Florida on July 16, 1969 at 9:32 a.m. EDT.

Incredibly, Jules Verne’s technological visions also included:  manned submarines diving to 20,000 leagues under the sea, manned spelunking expeditions to the center of the Earth, and manned hot air balloons used to circumnavigate the Earth.

Today, Jules Verne’s visionary genius has transcended the fictional page, having inspired modern-day Rocket Scientists and Engineers to develop real-world innovative technologies based-on his stories.  Consequently, Jules Verne has directly inspired the following incredible advancements that are possible today:

LAND -- Spelunk (cave explore):

Reaching the extreme depth of 2,196 meters (7,205 feet) deep within the Earth’s mysterious vast subterranean caverns of Krubera-Voronya Cave in Abkhazia, Georgia, as inspired by Jules Verne's novel entitled, “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (1864).

SEA -- Submarine Dive:

Reaching the extreme depth of 10,927 meters (35,853 feet) or approx. 2.0 leagues within Earth’s inky black ocean Abyss called the Mariana Trench, as inspired by Jules Verne's novel entitled, “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” (1869).

AIR -- Fly Around the World in a Balloon:

On March 21, 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first team to fly around the world by balloon in 20 days, as inspired by Jules Verne's novels entitled, “Five Weeks in a Balloon” (1863) and “Around the World in Eighty Days” (1873).

SPACE -- Rocket Humans to the Moon:

Utilizing Dr. Wernher Von Braun's Saturn-V Rocket, NASA succeeded in manned round-trip space travel between the Earth and the Moon, as inspired by Jules Verne's Moon Novels, “From the Earth to the Moon” (1865) and “Around the Moon” (1870).

JVSX Aerospace Academy: OUR aim ...

At JVSX Aerospace Academy, we aim to inspire our students to develop their very own visionary ideas and to teach them essential critical thinking and problem-solving skills.  We are dedicated to continuing the legacy of inspiration bestowed upon us by the visionary novels of Jules Verne and the ingenious vision of manned space travel championed by Dr. Wernher von Braun.

JVSX Aerospace Academy: our Goals ...

Our principal goal is to empower our students to transform their visionary ideas of today into the groundbreaking realities of tomorrow.  We are committed to imparting knowledge of modern-day Space Systems Technology, Rocket Science, and Space Systems Engineering principles developed by Dr. Wernher von Braun.  Additionally, we will pass on the essential technical hands-on skills necessary for their success.

JVSX Aerospace Academy: MEET OUR PRESIDENT ...

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JVSX Aerospace Academy Founder/President-CEO, Dominick J. Marrone, has successfully completed the Bachelor of Science, Aeronautical Electronics Engineering Degree (B.S., A.E.E., 2005 — ABET approved) from Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology, and is currently pursuing a Master of Science in Space Studies — Planetary Sciences Degree (M.S., SPC) from American Military University (AMU).  He is an Aerospace Senior Systems Engineer-Manager with 25+ years of real-world NASA Aerospace, Aviation Defense Systems, and Medical Systems experience, including:

  • 2024 — 2005  [ Active ]   JVSX Aerospace Academy (formerly JVRIL-Science, since 2005).
    • Executive Director, Space Systems Training:  19 years experience.
    • Design & Built:  JVSX ODL-LMS (On-line Distance Learning — Learning Management System).
    • Space Systems Instructor & Courseware Developer:  FAA Commercial Space Astronaut (CSA), Space Systems Engineering (SSE), Electronics Engineering (EE), and Space Technology Technician.
  • 2024 – 2013  [ Active ]   Joint Ventures in Space Exploration (JVSX) State College, PA.
    • Executive Director, Space Systems Engineering (SSE):  11+ Years experience.
      • Space Systems Analyst:  New SMAD CubeSat Mission Design & MS-PBI Data Analytics, Payload RF-Communications Design, Payload Remote-Sensing Instrumentation, and GSE MCC/MOC Dashboards.
      • Satellite Training Instructor:  Courseware Developer using Agile-ISD (Instructional Software Design).
  • 2013 – 2009  [ Ex officio ]   CineMagic & SFX Entertainment Orlando, FL.
    • Project Manager, Embedded Control Systems (ECS):  4-Years experience.
      • PM leading first-in-the-world Digital Signage Network (DSN) Streaming-media Edutainment Kiosks with Interactive Transparent Projection (ITP) Displays for Sci-Centers, Museums & Theme Park venues.
  • 2004 – 1999   [ Ex officio ]   iThinkWise, Inc. Orlando, FL.
    • Executive Director, Systems Engineering Program Manager:  5-Years experience.
      • NASA SBIR: International Space Station (ISS) – 50 kW Space Solar-PV/Power Generator (SSP/SPG).
      • PM leading Embedded/Distributed Control Systems (ECS/DCS) Program:  Design, integration, test and programming of Proof-of-Concept (POC) first-in-the-world ITW 50 kW PowerORB SSP/SPG.
  • 1995 – 1993   [ Ex officio ]   OnGard — Pharmetics Sterilization L.I. NY.
    • Program Manager (Production-floor MFG), Embedded Control Systems:  2-Years experience.
      • PM leading the Embedded Control System (ECS) Dept:  Design, integration, testing, programming and manufacture of USA & Europe first-in-the-world High-Vacuum/High-Temperature Saturated-steam Medical Sterilizers, for critical use in Hospital-OR, Dental-OR, and Medical Waste Sterilization.

Dominick Marrone has extensive Managerial experience in which he held the leadership roles of:  Executive Director, Program, Project and Production-floor Manager with across-the-board Management Training, such as:

  • United Technologies Corporation (UTC) — Achieving Competitive Excellence (ACE) Program:
    • Design for Lean Six-Sigma (DFLSS).
  • UTC Agile SCRUM Leader.
  • UTC Agile Engineering with Agile ADDIE [Analysis, Design, Develop, Implement & Evaluate] iterative method.
  • NASA Total Quality Management (TQM).
  • NASA ISO-9001/9000 Standards.
  • NASA/INCOSE Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) Design methods.

Dominick Marrone has significantly contributed his leadership skills to achieve several ‘first-in-the-world’ New Business Products (NBP) with Awards & Accolades from his former employers and aerospace industry leaders, including:

  • United Technologies Corporation (UTC) / KHC / Sikorsky Aerospace Corporation, Coatesville, PA.
  • United Technologies Corporation (UTC) / U.S.B.I. / United Space Alliance at NASA Kennedy Space Center / Cape Canaveral Air Force Stations (C.C.A.F.S.), FL.
  • Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMC) / Loral Electronics Systems (LES), Yonkers, NY.
  • Grumman Aerospace Corporation (GAC):  Bethpage & Melville, L.I., NY.

Dominick Marrone has extensive aerospace experience on NASA Human Spaceflight Programs, including

  • NASA Space Shuttle STS/Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) – Robotic-TPS (Thermal Protection Systems) Engineer.
    • Robotic-TPS Ablative ‘Application’; MSFC Convergence Coating (MCC-1).
    • Robotic-TPS Ablative ‘Removal’; Hydro-lazing Water-Jet’ at NASA ARF:  High-Pressure Wash Facility.
    • Robotic-TPS Ablative SRB Application & Removal:  “Robotic-Arm Anti-Collision Safety Control System”.
  • NASA SBIR — International Space Station (ISS):  Robotics Software Engineer.
    • ISS Robotic-SUMS (Smart Umbilical Mating System) Systems:
      • Program 4-DoF Umbilical Robotic-Arm (Yaw, Pitch, Roll and Expand/Collapse).
      • Program Robotic-SUMS Quick Dis-connect (QD) End-effector Mating Plate, utilizing:  KollMorgan ServoStar Linear Induction Motor (LIM) Controller with Haieden linear encoder feedback.
      • Program ‘Smart’ A.I. Visual Tracking & Quick Dis-connect (QD) Docking & Mating Subsystem.
      • Program ‘Smart’ A.I. Optical Target Vision Capture & Recognition Sub-systems.
      • Program NASA PLC Critical Systems Safety (CSS) utilizing:  GE/Fanuc PLC-90/70 (LM9070) Ladder Logic Programming with Genius-I/O Modules configured for Dual & Triple Modular Redundancy (DMR/TMR) Fault-tolerant & Fail-safe Operation.
      • Program NASA PLC Critical Systems Safety utilizing:  Intellution HMI/MMI SCADA Systems.

 

  • NASA SBIR — International Space Station (ISS):  iThinkwise, CTO/Director & PI.
    • Design ISS 50 kW Space Solar-PV (SSP); PowerORB Magnifying Integrating Spherical Transducer.
    • Design ISS Space Power Generator (SPG); Friction-less Diamagnetic-bearing Levitation Turbine (FDLT).

 

  • JVSX Aerospace Corporation:
    • Satellite Systems Analyst:  Design, develop and program
      • Design/Program NewSpace stakeholders Space Mission & Design (SMAD) trade-off studies and MS-Power-BI Dashboard Data Analytics.
      • Design/Program Space Mission & Design (SMAD) Statistics, Probability & Risk Analysis utilizing:  a) R/RStudio & RStudio Cloud, b) MS-Power-BI w/ DAX + QUERY + Dashboards, c) Concord CODAP.
      • Design/Program Planet QGIS Satellite Data with integration to MS POWER-BI + ARCGIS.
    • Satellite Systems Developer:  CalPoly CubeSat/P-Pod and ARHAB-SAT.
      • Payload Design: Amateur Radio RF-Communications; APRS, FoxTelem and US915-LoRA.
      • Payload Design:  Remote-Sensing Satellite Systems; Optical Spectrometry, LIDAR, Radiometry, Gravimeters, GCR/SPE Radiation Detection & Protection Systems (BNNT & CNNT).
      • Design/Program:  Mission Control Center & Operations Center (MCC/MOC) Systems. 
      • Design/Program:  Ground Support Equipment (GSE) Systems; RF-Communications (U/V & S-bands), Satellite Orbital Trajectory Tracking, Data Telemetry and FMS Command & Controls.
    • Satellite Training Instructor:  AMSAT CubeSat-SIM, EyasSat Systems, and AmbaSat & LoRA Systems.

 

  • United Technologies Corporation/Sikorsky Aerospace Corporation:
    • Sr. Systems Engineer:  Rotocraft S-76 and S-92 Helicopter Programs.

 

  • U.S. Military Aviation (Jet-Fighter Aircraft) Defense Programs:
    • Sr. ATE/ATP-TPS & ESS Test Technician:  Lockheed-Martin Corporation F-16 [Fighting Falcon].
    • Microcircuits Standards Engineer (MSE):  Grumman Aircraft Corporation F-14D (Tomcat), E-2C (Hawkeye), EA-6B (Prowler), E-3 Sentry [Boeing-707/320] with AWACS (Airborne Warning & Control Systems), X-29 FSW, and E-8C (Joint Stars).

Dominick Marrone has extensive ‘critical systems’ experience on NASA Human Spaceflight Programs, including:

  • NASA Space-Shuttle Transport System (STS) / Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) – Robotic Thermal Protection Systems (Robotic-TPS) Program:
    • Robotic (TPS) Software Engineer:
      • Robotic-TPS:  Ablative ‘Application’; NASA MSFC Convergence Coating (MCC-1).
      • Robotic-TPS:  Ablative ‘Removal’; Hydro-lazing Water-Jet’ at NASA ARF: High-Pressure Wash Facility.
      • Robotic-TPS:  Solid Rocket Booster (SRB) Non-Motor Segments (Frustum, Forward & Aft) — design & programming: “Robot-Arm Anti-Collision Safety Control System” utilizing Nikko 6-DoF Revolute Robot-Arm on overhead Gantry (33’x33’x35’).
  • NASA SBIR:  International Space Station (ISS) — Robotic-SUMS (Smart Umbilical Mating System) Program:
    • Robotic (SUMS) Software Engineer:
      • Robotic-SUMS 4-DoF (Yaw, Pitch, Roll and Expand/Collapse) Robotic Smart Umbilical Arm with Quick Dis-connect (QD) End-effector Mating Plate, utilizing:  KollMorgan ServoStar Linear Induction Motor (LIM) Controller with Heidenhain linear encoder feedback.
      • ‘Smart’ A.I. Visual Tracking & Quick Dis-connect (QD) Docking Subsystems.
      • ‘Smart’ A.I. Optical Target Vision Capture & Recognition Subsystems.
      • NASA Critical System Safety (CSS):  GE/Fanuc PLC-90/70 with LM9070 Ladder Logic Programming of Genius-I/O Modules for Triple Modular Redundancy (TMR) Fault-tolerant & Fail-safe Operation.
      • NASA Critical Systems Safety (CSS):  Intellution HMI/MMI SCADA (C/C++) Programming.
  • NASA SBIR:  International Space Station (ISS) — 50 kW Space Solar-PV Power (SSP) / Space Power Generator (SPG) Program:
    • iThinkwise (ITW); CTO/Director & Principle Investigator (P.I.):
      • ISS 50 kW Space Solar-PV (SSP); ITW PowerORB Magnifying Integrating Spherical Transducer.
      • ISS Space Power Generator (SPG); ITW Friction-less Diamagnetic-bearing Levitation Turbine (FDLT).
  • JVSX Aerospace Corporation:  CTO/Director — Satellite System Programs
    • Satellite Systems Analyst:  Providing NewSpace & Academia stakeholders with Space Mission & Design (SMAD) trade-off studies and MS-Power-BI Dashboard for CubeSat Mission Data Analytics.
    • Satellite Training Instructor:  AMSAT CubeSat-SIM Trainer, EyasSAT Trainer and AmbaSAT Trainer. 
    • Satellite Systems Developer:  CalPoly CubeSat/P-Pod and ARHAB-SAT.
      • Payload:  Amateur Radio RF-Communications; APRS, FoxTelem and US915 LoRA.
      • Payload:  Remote-Sensing Satellite Systems; Optical Spectrometry, LIDAR, Radiometry, Gravimeters, GCR/SPE Radiation Dosimeter Detection & Shielding Protection; Boron Nitride Nanotubes (BNNT).
    • Mission Control Center & Operations Center (MCC/MOC) Systems Developer. 
    • Ground Support Equipment (GSE):  RF-Communications (U/V & S-band) Network; Satellite Orbital Trajectory Tracking Systems, Data Telemetry Systems, and FMS Command & Control Systems.

 

Dominick Marrone has extensive aerospace experience on U.S. Commercial Aviation (Roto-craft) Programs:

  • Sikorsky Aerospace Corporation — Roto-craft S-76 and S-92 Helicopter Programs:
    • Sr. System Engineer – SCRUM Team Leader:  S-76 Helicopter Cockpit Digital Video Flight-Data Recorder System (C-DVRS).
      • Design, develop, test and acquire both:  USA FAA-STC Approval (per 14 CFR 29.1353/29.1549) and European Approval (per EASA-112).

 

Dominick Marrone has extensive aerospace experience on U.S. Military Aviation (Jet-Fighter Aircraft) Defense Programs:

  • Grumman Aircraft Corporation — F-14D (Tomcat), E-2C (Hawkeye), EA-6B (Prowler), E-3 Sentry [Boeing 707/320] with AWACS (Airborne Warning & Control Systems), X-29A Forward Swept Wing (FSW), and E-8C (Joint Stars) Programs:
    • Microcircuit Standards Engineer (MSE):  Point-of-Contact & MSE Authority on All aircraft programs:
      • MSE Authority for use of microcircuits on all ‘existing’ aircraft system designs.
      • MSE Authority for use of microcircuits on all ‘new’ aircraft system designs that required QPL-38510 Approval per form, fit, function, device obsolescence, device substitution, and/or request for ‘equivalent’ part replacement.
      • Generate Source Control Drawings (SCD/SOCD) for Non-Standard Parts Approval (NSPA) related microcircuits per MIL-STD-883, MILSTD-38510, QPL-38510, and semiconductors per MIL-STD-19500.

  • Lockheed-Martin Corporation / Loral Electronics Systems (LES):  F-16 (Fighting Falcon) Jet-Fighter Aircraft with Quadruplex Fly-by-wire Flight Control Systems (Q-FLCS).

    • Sr. Technician:  Environmental Stress & Strain (ESS) Test Program:
      • ESS Thermotron Autoclave Testing; HALT-HASS [Shake & Bake].
      • ESS Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVC) Testing:  Cryogenic Temperature-cycling.
      • Automated Test Equipment/Programming (ATE/ATP) with Test Program Set (TPS); ATLAS; ADA, FORTRAN; C and RMB of ATE Test Instrumentation & Signal Measurement.

Dominick Marrone’s Engineering expertise is New Business Products (NBP) full life-cycle (cradle-to-grave) Embedded & Distributed Control Systems (ECS/DCS):  Design, Integration, Test & Programming.

  • Embedded Control Systems (ECS) Engineer:
    • My ECS expertise includes:  Intel i86/i186/i286/i386/i486 & Pentium (i586) uP, Intel Atom uP, RISC ARMv7-M uP (Cortex-M3), Microchip PIC PIC18F/PIC16F/PICAXE-08M2 uP (BalloonSat design), Microchip Atmel AVR AT91SAM7X MCU, Microchip AtTiny85 uP (PicoSat design), Microchip Atmega328 uP; RISC-V ESP32-C3 MCU; Seeeduino XIAO SAMD21 MCU (CubeSat design), and many more.
    • Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design & Programming (VHDL & Verilog); ie. Xilinx Spartan-3E FPGA DP Baseboard2 + VHDL w/Webpack, and many others. 
    • In-Circuit Testing/Emulation (ICT/ICE) Programming & Debugging.
    • Built-In Test/Equipment (BIT/BITE) Programming.
    • High-level language (HLL) Applications Programming: C, C++, C#, Python, Java, Android, HTML5.
    • Low-level language (LLL) Assembler Programming:  Intel MASM-x86, PIC MP-ASM, and AMI-BIOS firmware Device Driver development.
    • N.I. LabVIEW DACS (Data Acquisition & Control System): MATLAB/Simulink; SciKit-learn; SciPy/NumPy.
    • N.I. BridgeVIEW HMI/MMI SCADA (Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition) Design & C-Programming.
  • Distributed Control Systems (DCS) Engineer:
    • Automated Test Equipment/Programming (ATE/ATP) with Test Program Set (TPS):  ATLAS, ADA (Mil-Std-1815), FORTRAN, Borland ‘C’ and RMB, for Avionics ‘Black Box’ Units Under Test (UUT).
    • Allen Bradley PLC-5 (1785) -5/20 & -5/40 with AB-6200 Ladder Logic Programming ( IEC 61131-3 Standard ), Rockwell RsLogix-5 with RsSQL R-DBMS, and AB Data Highway Plus (DH+) Networking.
    • Allen Bradley PLCs:  SLC-500, ControlLogix-1756 (Motion Control), and MicroLogix -1200 & -1500.

Dominick Marrone has achieved numerous Advanced U.S. Gov’t Licenses, NASA Certifications and Industry Certificates, as follows:

  • U.S. Government Federal Communications Commission (FCC) License (Total = 2):
    • 2026 – 2006  FCC Amateur Radio GENERAL Operator; Call-sign: KC2PXA.
    • 2006 – 2005  FCC Amateur Radio TECHNICIAN Operator; Call-sign:  KC2PXA.
  • Certificate (Total = 1):  Amateur Radio Volunteer Instructor (V.I.) – ARRL ETP Registered & Authorized.
    • American Radio & Relay League (ARRL) Education & Technology Program (ETP) Hudson Division, NY.
  • Certificates (Total = 4):  PLANET QGIS Satellite Data Integration with MS Power-BI Dashboards and ARCGIS/ARCGIS-PRO.
    • Planet Labs PBC.  San Francisco, CA.
  • Certificates (Total = 2):  AGI Satellite Tool Kit (STK) Programming
    • AGI STK Application Programming:  Orbital Mechanics, Inter-Planetary Orbital Trajectory Optimization, Orbital Determination, Satellite Ground Tracking, and RF-Communication Link Budgets.
    • AGI STK Application Programming; JAVA.
    • (AGI) Analytical Graphics, Inc. Exton, PA.
  • Certificate (Total = 1):  Rocket Propulsion (SRM) Solid Rocket Motor PSAN-1 Design, Formulation, and Test Cell; ‘Static-Fire’ Testing with Data Acquisition & Data Analytics.
    • Wickman Spacecraft & Propulsion Company (WSPC) / CP Technologies Corporation Casper, WY.
  • Certification (Total = 24):  NASA Space-Shuttle Transport System (STS) / Solid Rocket Boosters (SRB):
    • Robotic-TPS (Thermal Protection System) Ablative ‘Application’; MSFC Convergence Coating (MCC-1).
    • Robotic-TPS Ablative ‘Removal’; Hydro-lazing Water-Jet’ at NASA ARF:  High-Pressure Wash Facility.
  • Certification (Total = 14):  NASA (OSHA) Occupational Safety & Health Administration.
  • Certification (Total = 1):  NASA ISO-9000 Standards.
  • Certification (Total = 1):  NASA Total Quality Management (TQM).
  • Certification (Total = 2):  GE/Fanuc PLC-90/70 Critical Safety System (CSS) with Dual & Triple Modular Redundancy (DMR/TMR) utilizing:  Fault-Tolerant & Fail-Safe Genius-I/O Module integration, and          GE/Fanuc PLC-90/70 Ladder Logic Programming (LM9070).
    • General Electric-Fanuc Training Division Tampa, FL.
  • Certification (Total = 1):  Allen Bradley Programmable Logic Controllers; PLC-5 & SLC-500 Family.
    • Allen Bradley AB-6200 Ladder Logic Programming, and Rockwell RSLogix-5 RS-SQL R-DBMS.
    • Allen Bradley SLC-500 Ladder Logic Programming, and Rockwell RSLogix-500 RS-SQL R-DBMS.
    • Allen Bradley Data Highway Plus (DH+) Network Communications.
    • Consolidated Electric Supply Training Division Orlando, FL.
  • ACE Certificates (Total = 9):  CISCO Router 2514 with Catalyst-5002/FE Switch [Fast-Ethernet + FDDI], WAN/LAN TCP/IP Networking (Routers, Bridges & Switches) Design, and Intranet Website Design.
    • American Research Group (ARG) Training Center Cary, NC.
  • Certificate (Total = 1):  Virtual Reality (VR) HUD Hardware, I/O Interfacing & VRML Software Programming.
    • Instructor: Mark Pressman, President of Amusitronix, Inc., NY.
  • Certification (Total = 2 ):  Automated Test Equipment/Programming (ATE/ATP) with Test Program Set (TPS); (ATLAS; ADA, FORTRAN; C and RMB) of Test Instrumentation & Signal Measurement.
    • HP-3852 Data Acquisition & Control System (DACS) Integration to ATE/ATP.
    • Sys-Admin:  Hewlett Packard: HP-9000 Mini-Mainframe/HPUX-OS (UNIX-SVR4 with X11 Windows).
  • Environmental Stress & Strain (ESS):  Thermotron Autoclave Testing; HALT-HASS [Shake & Bake].
  • Environmental Stress & Strain (ESS):  Thermal Vacuum Chamber (TVC); Cryogenic Testing.
  • Verification & Validation (V&V) Software Testing (per IEEE-829 and IEEE-1012).
  • Control Systems Integration (CSI):  I2C, SPI, 1-wire, USB2, RS-232, PC-104+, GPIB (Mil-Std-1553), IEEE/NI-488.2, and ARINC-429.
  • Computer-Aided Engineering (CAE):  PCB Design (Eagle, PCAD) and PCBA MFG (JLCPCB, PCBWAY).
  • Electronic Circuit Simulation:  Fritzing and TinkerCAD.
  • Computer-Aided Design Drafting (CADD):  Autodesk-123D, SolidWorks-3D [ FreeCAD & OnShape ], LibreCAD, and Google/Trimble SketchUp.
  • 3D-Printing & 3D Model Design & Slicing:  (FFF) Fused Filament Fabrication and (SLS) Selective Laser Sintering.
  • 3D-Scanning.
  • 3D-Laser Etching/Engraving.
  • 3D-CNC.
  • 3D-Lathe.

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JVSX Teaching Philosophy

In practice, JVSX Teaching Philosophy shows proof-positive results:

“JVSX Students develop new ‘adaptive’ critical thinking abilities with real-world computational problem-based learning (PBL) skills, and practical hands-on project-based learning (PjBL) experience, which they can apply to solve past, present and future complex technical challenges, throughout their academic and industry careers”.   by Dominick J. Marrone, JVSX Founder/President.

JVSX Teaching Philosophy is based-on Educational Psychologist — Jean Piaget’s Constructivist Learning Technique, which has been U.S.A. Academically ‘tested and proven’ to be a very successful pedagogical practice (since 1980).

 

Briefly, Jean Piaget’s Constructivist Learning Technique (CLT) proposes that, “student learning is achieved by

introducing new information in combination with ‘how to’ conceptual experiences, allowing students to make
continuous comparative updates to their existing incomplete or erroneous mental schema, thereby improving their overall conceptual understanding of the subject”.  In comparison to other teaching methods, the significant improvement is that, “CLT aims to identify ‘how to implement learning processes in the classroom’, and ‘how knowledge is constructed to aid student learning”.

JVSX Teaching Philosophy incorporates CLT methods within course lessons which is then supplemented with present-day Project-Based Learning (PJBL) techniques — applied through ‘hands-on’ laboratory exercises, to successfully teach JVSX Students an entirely ‘new perspective’ and ‘new understanding’ of the real world while they gain practical application experience.

In practice, sparking the student’s new found interest and motivation to learn is the first critical step that enables the integration of CLT with PJBL. 

 

Once JVSX Students interest and motivation are achieved, CLT are used to tear down erroneous pre-conceived assumptions within the students old conceptual mental schema, while reducing unnecessary dependencies on rote memorization, and/or regurgitation of ‘coined’ answers. 

 

JVSX students are then guided through instructor structured step-by-step procedures, that teach students critical problem-solving skills for logic-based reasoned solutions, while also incorporating ‘instructor-shared’ real world industry in-field experiences, to increase the student’s own relational knowledge-base for potential future applications.  As a result, JVSX Students acquire new subject matter knowledge, learn scientific principles, learn ‘how to’ apply technical data, and gain hands-on PJBL application experience.

 

Upon completion of the JVSX Course, students have increased self-confidence, developed the ability to expand upon their newly learned knowledge, can relate to instructor shared ‘lessons learned’ experience, and apply their own hands-on learned PJBL skills.  JVSX has identified three salient measurable student benefits:

  • An increase in student’s subject matter comprehension.
  • An increase in student’s factual data associations without rote memorization or regurgitated answers.
  • An improved accuracy of student’s long-term data retention resulting in improved test scores.

 

JVSX Students can now construct new ideas for creative innovative designs to resolve real world application problems.

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